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This Friday, Columbia County will take center stage on the gridiron as the Lakeside-Evans football game will be televised live on WJBF. I don’t dare try to give out a channel as it probably depends on which cable or satellite company you’re with, HD or regular channels, etc.

While teams will be the focus of the football broadcast, Augusta Christian senior golfer Sarah Harrison will be on TV on one of golf’s grandest stages – Pebble Beach.

If you want to see a lot of top-notch high school volleyball in one setting, mark your calendars for Friday, Oct. 10 and Saturday, Oct. 11.

That’s when Grovetown High School will play host to the Area 2-AAAAA Tournament for the second consecutive year. And this year, Grovetown has a good chance to be a No. 1 seed entering it.

Last year, it was Greenbrier and Lakeside that entered as the top teams from Columbia County. While there has just been a small sample size from which to judge and area play has yet to officially start, it is hard to deny the results.

OK, time’s up. If you know me you might have figured out I was talking about the Baltimore Orioles. Stay with me, I’m going to connect it up in just a minute.

The Orioles are 69-50 and hold an ever-widening lead in the American League East. Joseph and Schoop are far from household names and might never be, but they have been invaluable to their team’s success this season.

With a new rule in place, hopefully ground is being broken for new county rivalries.

On Saturday, Sept. 30, Evans High School, Grovetown and Augusta Preparatory Day School will be the first county schools to take advantage of Georgia High School Association’s rule 2.62, which was passed at their April 14 executive committee meeting.

Previously, schools under the GHSA umbrella such as Evans and Grovetown were not permitted to compete against teams in the Georgia Independent School Association, of which Augusta Prep is a member.

It seems like drama can’t be avoided when Little League teams head to postseason tournaments.

At the Georgia Little League Senior League Baseball State Championship at Evans High School last weekend, tournament organizers from Martinez-Evans Little League faced the chore of correctly figuring out a three-way tie on the first day of the tournament, with one team set to be eliminated.

When Columbia County arrests from the week of and through the long July Fourth holiday were made public, 18 of the 78 arrests (23 percent) were for driving under the influence of alcohol/drugs, including two while piloting a watercraft.